"has a local football team, Eton Wick F.C., that plays at Hayward's Mead. Eton Wick Eton Wick is a village currently in the English ceremonial county of Berkshire, but traditionally in Buckinghamshire, on the River Thames. According to the Grid Ref at the 2011 Census the population was included in the civil parish of Eton. It is very close to both the historic towns of Windsor and Eton, as well as Slough and Dorney Lake, the rowing venue for the 2012 Summer Olympics. The village has grown rapidly between the 1880s and the 2000s. After the construction of Eton College"
"Eton Racing Boats ) --> Eton Racing Boats (commonly referred to as ERB) was a manufacturer of racing boats for rowing, based in Eton, United Kingdom. The company was founded by Eton College, who also funded the construction of the Dorney Lake development. The company ceased trading on Friday 16 February 2007 due to insufficient profits and stiff competition from cheaper good quality rowing equipment. Eric Sims continues to offer equipment supplies via a separate outlet. The former company website claimed that ""boats from the Eton workshops have frequently won Henley medals and world championships"". The firm also manufactured and"
"the two days' play, and in 1910 the match made national headlines. But interest has since declined considerably, and the match is now a one-day limited overs contest. There is a running track at the Thames Valley Athletics Centre and an annual steeplechase. Among the other sports played at Eton is Eton Fives. In 1815, Eton College documented its football rules, the first football code to be written down anywhere in the world. In 2006, six years before the London 2012 Summer Olympic Games and London 2012 Summer Paralympic Games, Eton completed the construction of Dorney Lake, a permanent, eight-lane,"
"Eton Manor Eton Manor is a former name for a sports and leisure venue in Leyton, London Borough of Waltham Forest. It is the northernmost venue of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and remains as a permanent venue as part of the 2012 Olympic legacy, separated from the rest of the park by the A12 road. It is now known as Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre and is made up of four indoor and six outdoor tennis courts and two state-of-the art hockey pitches. During the 2012 Summer Olympics, Eton Manor housed temporary training pools for participants in aquatics"
"orienteering, swimming, basketball, tennis, cricket, Eton Fives and athletics. QE is well known for not practising football in lessons or playing football competitively against other schools. A particularly boggy part of the cross-country route, suitably nicknamed the 'Elephant Dip', owing to its extreme depth, links Barnet Rugby Club and the north-west gate of the bottom fields. Boys regularly use the Barnet RFC's fields which are a short run from the back field gate. There is much competition in the summer term when frequent competitions between houses are held before the summer examinations begin in June, including the QE Sevens Tournament"
"water polo competitors. Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy was commissioned to write a poem which has been installed at Eton Manor, to celebrate its history and the legacy it will leave for the community after the Games. The poem is erected onto a brass plaque at the entrance to the venue and was part of the Winning Words initiative, a national poetry scheme inspired by London 2012 which integrated permanent and temporary poetry on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre is located in the north of Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park"
"practice across the schools"". Eton also runs a number of choral and English language courses during the summer months. In 1995 the National Lottery granted money for a £4.6m sports complex, to add to Eton's existing facilities of two swimming pools, 30 cricket squares, 24 football, rugby and hockey pitches and a gym. The College paid £200,000 and contributed 4.5 hectares of land in return for exclusive use of the facilities during the daytime only. The UK Sports Council defended the deal on the grounds that the whole community would benefit, while the bursar claimed that Windsor, Slough and Eton"
"the 2000 Summer Olympics, and participated in the Boat race in 1998 and 1999. Other students who rowed while at the college have achieved success in other fields, including James John Hornby who became headmaster of Eton College. The college boathouse, which is shared with Exeter College Boat Club, is in Christ Church Meadow, on the Isis (as the River Thames is called in Oxford). It replaced a moored barge used by club-member and spectators. Brasenose College Rugby Football Club (abbreviated to BNCRFC) can draw association with William Webb Ellis, who is often credited as the inventor of the game,"
"University of Warwick Boat Club The University of Warwick Boat Club is the rowing club of the University of Warwick. The club was founded in 1967 and currently has over a hundred members. It rows out of a boathouse on a 3.5 km stretch of the River Avon, Warwickshire. It caters for all levels of rowers from novices to experienced oarsman. Notable former members include Oxford University Boat Club member and Boat Race winner Ben Ellison, Olympian Tom Solesbury, and Team GB para-rowing coxwain Oliver James MBE. It is known internationally for its annual nude wall calendars. The Club regularly"
"Bat and trap Bat and trap is an English bat-and-ball pub game. It is still played in Kent, and occasionally in Brighton. By the late 20th century it was usually only played on Good Friday in Brighton, on the park called The Level, which has an adjacent pub called The Bat and Ball, whose sign depicts the game. Brighton & Hove City Council plans to start a Bat and Trap club based at The Level in 2013, as part of the Activities Plan associated with a £2.2m Heritage Lottery Fund and Big Lottery Fund-funded restoration of the park. The game"
"a manual-professional distinction applied to the sport, the same early year in the sport as the formal foundation of the club serving Windsor and Eton. The club has membership groups for different age groups. The club and boat house is on the southern bank of the river at Egham Hythe (its electoral ward and parish), close to the ""Swan Inn"" on what was a series of three small islands of Staines-upon-Thames before 1754 and remains its post town, it is adjoined by a spur of the Thames Path, the Hythe towpath, through the small riverside conservation area which is connected"
"2,200 metre course (about 1.4 miles) in a 400-acre park. Eton financed the construction from its own funds. Officially known throughout the Games as ""Eton Dorney"", Dorney Lake provided training facilities for Olympic and Paralympic competitors, and during the Games, hosted the Olympic and Paralympic Rowing competitions as well as the Olympic Canoe Sprint event. It attracted over 400,000 visitors during the Games period (around 30,000 per day), and was voted the best 2012 Olympic venue by spectators. Thirty medal events were held on Dorney Lake, during which Team GB won a total of 12 medals, making the lake one"
"Eaton” and rowed bow in the winning Eton House four crew in 1866. He also shot for Eton in the Ashburton Shield in 1866. At the age of twenty Eaton joined the Grenadier Guards, and went to Dublin, where he was given the nickname ""Brown"" by his brother officers. He rowed for the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards in the 1877 Grand Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta. His father became Baron Cheylesmore of Cheylesmore, in the city of Coventry, co. Warwick in 1887 and had to give up his parliamentary seat. In the ensuing by-election Eaton stood for the seat"
"Eton Excelsior Rowing Club Eton Excelsior Rowing Club is a rowing club, on the River Thames in England. It is on the Berkshire bank of the Thames at Bray, Berkshire, on the reach above Boveney Lock. The club was founded as an intermittent club in 1821 and formally established in 1851. The club is the nearest club to the residents of Bray, Windsor, Slough and Eton and is an open rowing club for men, women, adults, juniors and veterans. It is affiliated to British Rowing. The club's colours are navy, amber and white. The club hosts an annual ""clubs and"
"Eton College and Sandhurst, and took a commission in the Royal Horse Guards in 1953. He played polo, and was an amateur jockey. On his own horse, Stalbridge Park, he won the Grand Military Gold Cup at Sandown Park in 1958, came second in 1959, then third in 1960, won again in 1961, and came second another time in 1962. He served in Cyprus during the Cyprus Emergency. By 1966, he was a major, in command of the Guards Independent Parachute Regiment. He resigned his commission in 1968, on the death of his mother, to take over the family firm."
"years of construction. Although it is primarily for use by the school, the facilities are hired out for rowing, as well as for canoeing, dragon boating, open water swimming and triathlon. The lake was used as the 2012 Summer Olympic venue for rowing and canoe sprint, and as the 2012 Summer Paralympic venue for rowing. For the duration of the Olympics, the lake was officially referred to as Eton Dorney; confusingly, a separate venue in Stratford was called ""Eton Manor"" due to 19th century associations with the school. To provide for Olympic spectators, the existing facilities were enhanced to include"
"straight paths that run along each side of the main lake make it a popular venue for runners, skaters, and even cross-country skiers practising with roller skis. The picturesque landscape also makes it a popular location for dog walkers and people out for fun. Dorney Lake Dorney Lake (also known as Eton College Rowing Centre, and as Eton Dorney as a 2012 Summer Olympics venue) is a purpose-built rowing lake in England. It is near the village of Dorney, Buckinghamshire, and is around 3 km (2 miles) west of Windsor and Eton, close to the River Thames. The lake is"
"wildlife like many of the hidden pockets of wild land in that area. Major Arthur Villiers was also one of the founders of Eton Manor Boys' Club in Hackney Wick in 1913. In the 1920s an area of Hackney Marshes was converted from a dumping ground into the Eton Manor Sports Ground. During the London 2012 Summer Olympics, the site which had fallen into disrepair from 1967 when Arthur Villiers died, became the Paralympic Tennis Venue. From 2014 the Eton Manor site will become the Lea Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre. The Manor Garden Allotments were demolished in October 2007"
"to The Hague, with the FIH promising London a chance to hold an event in 2015 or 2016. The venue will host the 2015 EuroHockey Nations Championships. Wapping Hockey Club secured anchor tenancy at the Olympic Legacy Facility following its opening in June 2014. In December 2012 the International Tennis Federation announced that the venue would stage the NEC Wheelchair Tennis Masters on its indoor courts. Eton Manor Eton Manor is a former name for a sports and leisure venue in Leyton, London Borough of Waltham Forest. It is the northernmost venue of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and remains"
"sold range of accessories and other products for the sport, including outriggers, megaphones, coaching launches and pontoons, as well as providing maintenance services. Boatbuilding had taken place in the area since the 1800s, with composite racing boats introduced in 1994. Since then, the company developed its range of boats to include eights, fours, pairs and singles, were available in a range of colours and different types for training and racing. Eton Racing Boats ) --> Eton Racing Boats (commonly referred to as ERB) was a manufacturer of racing boats for rowing, based in Eton, United Kingdom. The company was founded"
"exercise School discipline. Boys who belong to any of these categories, in addition to a limited number of other boy office holders, are entitled to wear winged collars with bow ties. It is possible to belong to the ""Eton Society"" and ""Sixth Form Select"" at the same time. In the era of Queen Elizabeth I there were two praepostors in every form, who noted down the names of absentees. Until the late 19th century, there was a praepostor for every division of the school. Sport is a feature of Eton; there is an extensive network of playing fields. Their names"
"the United Kingdom which allowed him to sit in the House of Lords. He also accepted the Stewardship of the manor of East Hundred, in the county of Berkshire. Sefton was an enthusiastic gambler and sportsman whose main sporting success was in the founding and governance of sports events. He was the third man to be appointed Master of The Quorn (1800–1805). In 1836, he founded the Waterloo Cup for coursing at Great Altcar in Lancashire, an event which was very popular in its heyday and attracted large crowds. The last Waterloo Cup took place in 2005. Over the years,"
"at the Exe Sailing club in Exmouth along with Morrison. He was said to be far more interested in sailing than Steve, who preferred to watch football. They came sixth at their first world championship in 2003 and picked up their first Gold at the 2006 European Championships. He has three superstitions: his boat has to have a name, he salutes magpies, and he does not wear a T-shirt during an event. At the 2008 Summer Olympics, he and Morrison finished in 9th place, while at London 2012 they finished in 5th place. Ben Rhodes (sailor) Ben Christopher Rhodes (born"
"has taken place on the Yorkshire coast between the Tees and the Humber. Beginning with friendly rivalry between the fishermen and the jet miners from Blyth (the German Ocean Race), the sport has progressed to what it is today. More recent successes for the club include Bob Hewitt, who now competes as a lightweight rower for the national team. In 2006 the club finally won the acclaimed Wilson Cup, until then held by rival clubs in neighbouring town Whitby for over eighty years. Rowing takes place throughout the summer months. The Blue Riband event for Scarborough Yacht Club, is the"
"Eton wall game The Eton wall game is a game which bears some resemblance to rugby union that originated at and is still played at Eton College. It is played on a strip of ground 5 metres wide and 110 metres long (""The Furrow"") next to a slightly curved brick wall (""The Wall"") erected in 1717. The traditional and most important match of the year is played on St Andrew's Day, as the Collegers (King's Scholars) take on the Oppidans (the rest of the school). Although College has only 70 boys to pick from, compared to the 1250 or so"
"sports. The most notable exception is swimming. The main campus at East Perth has one oval which prior to the EPRA land-swap catered for a turf cricket ground in summer, a football oval in winter, and an athletics training track in spring. There are four outdoor hardcourts marked for tennis and basketball. The campus has a 50m swimming pool and a gymnasium which is marked with basketball, volleyball, and badminton courts. As well, the school has a rowing boathouse on the East Perth foreshore. Courses along Heirisson Island, the Swan River foreshore, and Kings Park including Jacobs Ladder provide excellent"
"gig (Evans Above) and two wooden racing gigs (Top Catch and Storm). The most recent addition was a coastal rowing boat named ""Wave Dancer"". The club has an annual regatta in August with racing for fine boats and gig. The fine boat regatta is part of the 10 meeting series of the West of England Amateur Rowing Association. The gig side of the club was formed in 2007 with the arrival of Evans Above. This side of the club has grown steadily over the last 3 years and regularly puts 3 boats out on training nights. The club is based"
"was in 1909, if you can believe it."" Frederick Forsyth's novel The Cobra has a passing reference to the Wall Game. Len Deighton's nameless protagonist in ""The IPCRESS File"", in passing, compares the scene boarding an aeroplane to the Eton Wall Game. Eton wall game The Eton wall game is a game which bears some resemblance to rugby union that originated at and is still played at Eton College. It is played on a strip of ground 5 metres wide and 110 metres long (""The Furrow"") next to a slightly curved brick wall (""The Wall"") erected in 1717. The traditional"
"Pupils try out at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, before completing months of training to assist on top show courts, including Centre Court. In 2016, the rugby 1st XV finished runner-up in the Emerging Schools League and the School won the Borough Cross-country competition. Until recently, patball – a hand and ball game said to have been invented at Dulwich College and borrowing from other sports such as Eton Fives – was popular at the School, with several courts in existence on the main site. There are various active societies within the School, including: Choral, orchestral, musical"
"Eton Fives Eton Fives, a derivative of the British game of Fives, is a handball game, similar to Rugby Fives, played as doubles in a three-sided court. The object is to force the other team to fail to hit the ball 'up' off the front wall, using any variety of wall or ledge combinations as long as the ball is played 'up' before it bounces twice. Eton Fives is an uncommon sport, with only a few courts, most of them as part of the facilities of the public schools in the United Kingdom. Public school Rydal Penrhos currently enjoys the"
"the beach. The inaugural contest in June 2002 featured football stars Eric Cantona and Matt Le Tissier. Brighton has a horse-racing course, Brighton Racecourse, with the unusual feature that when the full length of the course is to be used, some of the grass turf of the track has to be laid over the tar at the top of Wilson Avenue, a public road, which therefore has to be closed for the races. A greyhound racing circuit – the Brighton & Hove Greyhound Stadium – in Hove is run by Coral, at which Motorcycle speedway racing was staged in 1928."
"use of the Redgrave Pinsent Rowing Lake in south Oxfordshire for training purposes, along with the GB Rowing squad and University College Oxford Boat Club. The club races against the Cambridge University Boat Club in The Boat Race on the Thames in London each year, with the Oxford boat based at the Westminster School Boat Club. Oxford's team are commonly referred to as the ""Dark Blues"". It has featured medal-winning Olympic rowers (e.g., Matthew Pinsent & Constantine Louloudis) and coxes (e.g. Colin Moynihan, who played a leading role in organizing the 2012 Olympic Games in London). OUBC was one of"
"Dorney Lake Dorney Lake (also known as Eton College Rowing Centre, and as Eton Dorney as a 2012 Summer Olympics venue) is a purpose-built rowing lake in England. It is near the village of Dorney, Buckinghamshire, and is around 3 km (2 miles) west of Windsor and Eton, close to the River Thames. The lake is privately owned and financed by Eton College, which spent £17 million developing it. Additional grants, totalling £500,000, were obtained from Sport England, UK Sport, the DCMS and SEEDA in order to build the lake's finish tower. The project was completed in 2006, after 10"